TRANSIT TRIPOLI
play directed by Caroline Hatem
Credits
Author: Anna Seghers
Directing, adaptation : Caroline Hatem
Translation: Caroline Hatem, Josef Akiki, Bassel Shalgheen
Dramaturg: Bassel Shalgheen
Actor: Josef Akiki
Live Music, sound design: Rabih Gebeile
Scenography (in Berlin) : Velica Panduru
Scenography (in Tripoli) : Alexandre Habre
Costume design & wings: Nour Domloje
Video : Walid Abdelnour
Light design: Erich Schneider
Drawings (opening scene) : Jean-Marc Nahas
Additional drawings: Luca Nihawi, Rabih Gebeile
Digital Scenography support: Christopher Kondek
Poster: Rabih Gebeile
Production: YAZAN
Co-producer: Akademie der Künste
Rights: Kiepenheuer Medien
With the support of the Goethe-Institut International Co-Production Fund, the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, the Lab for Global Performance and Politics, KED Beirut, Correspondaences, Hunna Arts and Culture Center.
In partnership with the Art & Movement Dance School and the Schaubühne Theatre.
TouringTransit Tripoli was hosted in residency at the Schaubühne in Berlin.
It opened at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in November 2022.
Transit Tripoli is touring in Tripoli at the Rachid Karame International Fair (Maarad) with the support of the Goethe-Insitut Libanon within the Network for Cultural Outreach North Tour.
Date: June 11th, 2023
Time: 8 PM
Free entrance.
Buses available from Beirut.
Reservation & Infos : +961 70789906
Production year: 2022
Language: Syrian, Lebanese dialects
Duration: 75 minutes
“Sur un chemin perdu, vers un pays perdu. Mutterseelenallein.”
Lebanese theatre director Caroline Hatem is adapting Anna Seghers’ TRANSIT to the present Syrian context of displacement and emigration. Mirroring the situation in France in 1940, the play is set in Lebanon, where Syrians are impatiently waiting for visas or for occasions to flee, and where the narrator becomes a Syrian emigrant we follow in Tripoli’s streets and cafés.
With one actor on stage, live music and an extensive use of digital scenography to summon the city by the sea, TRANSIT TRIPOLI pays tribute to Seghers’ unique and lively voice, and its appeal to one’s inner space and freedom, ballads and gaze, while subjected to the implacability of History.
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